[Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

[Salvador Garcia]

"doing things to disks that Windows does not like"
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And that is the problem with any OS that puts in way too many levels of abstraction and restrictions. Instead of Windows, it should be called Sandbox. 
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Anecdote: Everyone run to the hills. Back in the early 90s a client needed a complex data gathering app, complete with a backup to floppy option (yup,it was that long ago). And it had to be encrypted. After much work and debugging I came up with a process that wrote directly to the floppy's sectors. I came up with my own file system. I compressed the data and broke it down into sectors. The end result was a floppy that could not be read by anything except the restore process. Then Windows came along and I had to scrap everything because I could no longer write to the disk the way I wanted. We were hoping to use this process for all of our software, but it was the time when Windows became standard office equipment and my process now sits somewhere on some archived backup aging along with its creator.
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I understand the need for abstraction, but find it hard to live with an OS that limits what the developer can do.
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Regards, Salvador

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Nov 24, 2015 4:28 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

On 25/11/2015 7:31 AM, Richard E. Crislip wrote:> Are you pissed with my response or is this humor? TIAI can assure you it's my warped sense of humour. You have said nothing to invoke my ire Richard.> As for your grown grown apps, you may very well have problems upgrading> to Win10, especially if your apps broke MS rules.Yes, we did break the rules because we had to; we are doing things to disks that Windows does not like and fully acknowledge that. However this was a hard requirement from the client and so it will remain.The whole thing would've been a lot less painful on a Linux box, but the powers-that-be mandated it would run on Windows.Regards,-- |              Mark McDougall              | "Electrical Engineers do it|  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug> |   with less resistance!"-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco